第3回東大文化人類学セミナー（2024/5/2） "Reading for change in Russia, or, protest when nothing seems possible"
2024年5月2日にマクマスター大学のペトラ・レースマン先生をお招きし、下記の講演会を実施します。講演会では、ロシアの芸術家・反体制派によるアート、とくにモスクワの路上で行う短い朗読パフォーマンスについて、ヴィクトル・セルジュ（1890-1947）を中心にお話しいただき、権威主義的体制におけるアートと儚い（fleeting）希望というものがもつ意義について考えます。
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場所：東京大学駒場キャンパス18号館4回コラボレーションルーム３（対面のみ）
概要：What happens when the potentialities for political change are fleeting? How can potentialities be sustained, especially when social conditions push towards a hardening of authoritarian power? And, why even continue to keep open political potentialities when it is clear that on their promise they may not deliver? In examining the politics of short-lived performances of public readings that Russian artist-dissidents deliver in Moscow streets, I trace possible answers to these questions. While artist-dissidents read a range of texts that stretch from Lev Tolstoy to Aleksandra Kollontai and Andrei Platonov, I especially attend to readings that center on anarcho-socialist writer Victor Serge (1890-1947). I argue that one reason Serge matters to Russian artist-dissidents is that his own politics and time was defined by great political disappointments and hopes, and that in his writing he confronted disappointment head-on. In being guided by research on political disappointment, utopian thinking, literature, and art, I also argue that Moscow street readings are not a sign of nostalgic affects and moods, but a longing for fundamental change that outlasts a historical moment even when it might have been fulfilled. In analyses of protest and dissent the fleeting is often seen as a sign of vulnerability, instead of resilience. It may be about time to conceptualize the cursory, ephemeral, or fleeting not as inadequacy or inefficiency, but as an emerging sense of how to think further about political possibilities to meaningfully inhabit this world.
